A veteran politician, Shehbaz was elected three times as chief minister of the powerful Punjab province and is the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Shehbaz Sharif was the chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest and richest
He became the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, one of the country’s largest political parties, after his brother was given a prison sentence in 2018.Panama Papers investigation Shehbaz and his son and political heir, Hamza, who has been elected Punjab’s next chief minister, also have faced corruption allegations.The country is in the midst of one of the worst inflation crises in Asia, with the cost of fuel and food 15.1 percent higher in mid-March than a year earlier,
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